You are what you eat

You are what you eat

This phrase is already known since the year 1826 when Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote “tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are” in Physiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante. Not only Brillat-Savarin who had that saying, but also Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach said “Man is what he eats”. Those quotations are not to be meant taken literally. They were stating that the food eaten has a bearing on what one’s state of mind and health.

The phrases want to remind us that what we eat would lead us to become something. For example, if you want to be a body builder, you have to eat more protein in your daily meals. Foods also reflect cultures where, for instance, Asians eat more rice compared to Western people.

What we eat would greatly influence ourselves positively or negatively. If we consume healthy foods, our body would obviously healthy, and if we have unhealthy eating routine, it is almost the same like we are eating and hurting our own body. Unhealthy eating habit would consume our body’s health through several diseases like heart attack, obesity, and diabetes. The world knows diabetes could cause you lose your legs, and when you already lose your legs, you will regret your old eating habit which “ate” your legs. Heart attack is just the same. When you got heart attack you should regret your eating habit that ate your heart’s health.

So, Do not let yourself eat you. Healthy eating choices such as organic foods and more vegetables than meats would help keeping your complete body until years. Well, if you still want to maintain the unhealthy eating pattern, you will only last 10 years or less because your body is not enough to feed you that long.